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...unicorn. The video seems to return to reality (where unicorns do not exist) when McBrayer and Carey share a candlelit dinner. We all know where they’re going to end up after that, right? Wrong. Instead of touching her body as Mariah begs for in the song, the two end up playing with toy cars on top of the dining room table. They finish off their dream date with the scantily-clad Mariah playing laser tag and frisbee. This attempt at comedy enters into a realm of ridiculousness that falls closer to horror than humor...
Unsurprisingly, the album deals largely with Costello’s experiences in Afghanistan. Second song “Masood” details the story of a 16-year-old whom Costello befriended during his time in Kabul. After the boy’s father died suddenly, Masood was left as the head of his family. The song’s lyrics, such as “I lied awake thinking of the hope that’s laid on me,” perfectly lay out the heartbreaking reality of this story and the situation in Afghanistan. Musically, the song...
Over the last five years, artists have been gathering en masse to attack President Bush and his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The protest song as a genre has been picked clean: artists have circled its corpse like vultures, eager to scavenge every shred of meat they can find. All the preaching of Neil Young, Bright Eyes, and Rise Against, however, can’t come close to matching the depth of insight and feeling offered by The OaKs on their new album, “Songs For Waiting...
Even more stunning is “War Changes Everything,” a protest song so spot-on in its commentary that it instantly makes all others from this century redundant. A description of how war corrupts and changes people, it springs from Costello’s own experiences but is universal in its impact. When he sings “I’ve sat alone on a mountaintop in a foreign land and wondered at how foolish humans are / Always at war,” one hopes that some future or current politician is paying attention...
...observation that “the sun broke through after years of darkness” shows that he has hopes for a better world. The female backing singers, with their “hoo, hoo” support, add additional levels of sweetness to a beautiful song...